Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1001 Defects
The exclamation of the Shaanxi businessman is actually not pleasant to say, and it can be regarded as a kind of "loser" consciousness, which means that grapes are sour because they can't eat grapes.

But upon closer examination, it makes sense.

Lianghuai salt merchants complained all day long that they paid too much, but in fact, if there was no administrative support from the imperial court to monopolize, it would be as the Shaanxi businessman said.

Qualifications are also required for service.

Ordinary people, how can there be this opportunity to "repay"?Desire to repay but fail.

In fact, there is no need for southern Sichuan salt. Kuidong, another "old revolutionary base" in time and space, can instantly seize the sales area in Hunan and Chu, making it impossible to sell a catty of Huaihe salt.

Unless the two pre-technologies of steamboat and sun-salt method are achieved.

Liu Yu just smiled at this and didn't answer. He understood that the Shaanxi businessman wanted the Xiangchu sales area to say this, but he didn't want to reveal it at this time, and it was still a few months away.

I don't want to reveal the truth, but some things can be made clear in advance.

"Don't even think about putting the government offices of the salt government in Sichuan. Even if there is so much salt in Sichuan, is it more than the sea? Besides, as far as the current production of Sichuan salt is concerned, even if the imperial court really gives you a chance, you can grasp it well." live?"

The Shaanxi businessman thought to himself, isn't it an easy matter to produce?Without a market, what do we produce so much salt for?Put it there and lose money?

As long as there is a market, with the current organizational methods and the strength of this iron bull, within two or three years, there will be salt wells everywhere.

If we can really hand over the Xiangchu salt area to us, I am afraid that the salt wells in Zigong will increase tenfold in three to five years, from the current seven or eight hundred to seven or eight thousand deep wells.

Just talking about the output, it is inevitable that I still feel a little unconvinced.

"Grandfather, I'm not boasting. With this method, capital is sufficient and technology is not lacking. In just a few years, the output can be doubled several times."

"The key is not whether we can produce so much salt."

"It's about whether the so much salt we produce can be sold, and whether the imperial court allows us to sell it."

"If the Duke is only worried about salt production, there is really no need for it."

After that, he held up the development plan booklet in his hand respectfully and said: "These plans have solved three things."

"One is the land rent, which is a headache for us."

"One is coal for cooking salt."

"The other is to order out multiple doors, local deductions, etc. If the Duke sends someone to take care of it, the order comes from one, and we can produce as much salt as the Duke wants, as long as the price is fair."

Liu Yu sneered at this statement.

Although the emperor was worried about whether Sichuan salt could guarantee a stable supply in the Xiangchu market within three years.

But Liu Yu was not worried about this at all, he sneered for other reasons.

Seeing Liu Yu's sneer, the Shaanxi businessman didn't understand what he meant, so Xiaoyi asked, "But what did the villain say wrong?"

Liu Yu snorted and said, "Just talking about the matter of Guizhou salt, have you ever thought about why the imperial court allows Sichuan salt to enter Guizhou now? Or, why in recent years, most of the salt in Guizhou comes from From Sichuan?"

"And the Yunnan salt and Guangdong salt in Guizhou have almost disappeared in recent years?"

"Is this because those who sell salt in Sichuan are smarter than those who sell salt in Yunnan and Guangxi? Smart? Integrity? Or is it because of something else?"

The Shaanxi businessman thought for a while and said, "Because Sichuan salt is cheap, the price is even better."

Liu Yu clapped his hands and said, "Then, why is Sichuan salt cheap? Why didn't Guangdong salt completely lose its market before?"

After a while, the Shaanxi businessman couldn't give Ziwu Maoyou, so Liu Yu said, "I'll tell you."

"The imperial court now wants to let Sichuan salt into Guizhou and Yunnan. You can enjoy it. But let me ask you, have you made any efforts for this before that? Do you understand that the basis for Sichuan salt to enter Guizhou now depends on What is it?"

"Damn, is it a policy from the court? The court said that if you want to go to the sun, can you go directly to the sun?"

"You only talk about salt production, salt production. If you talk about salt production, where is it not easy to produce salt in Shandong, Changlu, and Yingkou?"

"I said you sit back and enjoy what you get, don't be convinced!"

After being overwhelmed first, and then belittled by a pass, the Shaanxi businessman listened quietly to Liu Yu's belittlement, and was completely convinced in his heart.

Indeed, many policies cannot be resolved by a single sentence from the court.

To put it more clearly, the prerequisite for Sichuan salt to enter Guizhou is to cast money, military reform, and foreign trade that have nothing to do with salt.

Dashun's economic recovery requires coinage, copper and lead.

Yunnan copper accounts for [-]% to [-]% of Dashun's national copper production, excluding imports from Japan.

Guizhou lead accounts for [-]% to [-]% of Dashun's national "lead" production except for imports from Japan.

The "lead" here actually includes two things: lead and zinc.

How to transport Yunnan copper and Guizhou lead to the capital to cast money?

Only the waterways of the Jinsha River and those rivers in Guizhou can be built.

This is also something that the court was forced to do.

The collapse of the previous banknotes has a shadow, and Japan has begun to restrict the export of precious metals.

Dashun was forced to develop Yungui to alleviate the reality of currency shortage.

Minting money itself has a lot of consumption.

And the subsequent military reform, foreign trade, etc., the demand for lead and zinc soared.

At this time, the brass in Europe can be said to be [-]% of Chinese origin, because the Prussian Berlin Academy of Sciences has just completed the laboratory zinc production, and Dashun has been producing zinc for a long time. It is an absolute foreign trade fist product. .

After the Dashun military reform, the guns of the elite navy must use brass.Infantry training requires lead.Various naval instruments, such as protractors, sextants and the like, also require a lot of zinc.

During the 20 years when Liu Yu "built the foundation" for Dashun, Dashun also completed the infrastructure construction of this salt administration reform in places that Liu Yu didn't pay attention to at all.

In the past 20 years, the Dashun court has invested about 400 million taels of silver in places that Liu Yu didn't pay attention to—if the people in corvee are also converted into money.Of course, if they counted as zero cost, it didn't cost so much.

Subjectively speaking, the money spent by the Dashun court has nothing to do with improving people's livelihood.

The so-called emperor's benevolence and love for the people is nonsense. If the court had such an idea, it would be impossible to prevent the canal from pumping water to irrigate the land in the dry season, flood the crops with water in the flood season, and acquiesce in not blocking the Yellow River bursting in the south to protect the canal.

It was only forced out because of money making and military reform.

But objectively speaking, the repair and dredging of these rivers and the cleaning of dangerous shoals have indeed brought huge benefits to the people on both sides of the strait.

During this period, a total of more than [-] dangerous shoals of the Jinsha River were rehabilitated, and the smooth flow of the Jinsha River was basically guaranteed by means of burning reefs and watering gravel.

Yunnan built the Luoxingdu River Channel, and Sichuan and Guizhou provinces cooperated to dig the river channel from Renhuai to Maotai.

These basic constructions are the guarantee for Sichuan Salt to enter Guizhou.

It is the key to the complete withdrawal of Yunnan salt and Guangdong salt from Guizhou in recent years.

Without these infrastructures, even if the imperial court's policies were perfectly designed, they would be empty talk.

What Liu Yu meant was to ask, during this period, did these Shaanxi businessmen pay a penny?

Have you offered to build river channels or tow fiber roads across the Three Gorges?
Have you thought about it actively, if you want to grow bigger and develop your own industry, you should invest in road construction and the like?

Complaining that the imperial court did not give the opportunity, then have you thought about taking the initiative to develop the market and guarantee the transportation of the salt industry, so that it will come naturally?
The smuggling has never stopped before, and those who opened the salt wells were all involved.They can spend a lot of money to build temples for Guan Erye, donate schools to the local area, donate money to widows, and give alms to beggars. Have you ever thought about building waterways on their own initiative, even to facilitate smuggling?

No.

Shaanxi businessmen have made money and only do three things.

Investing in salt wells is progress.

Pawn shops, loan sharks.

And, buy land, hoard land, collect rent, and do good deeds in rent-collected land.

Liu Yu said "Sichuan salt into Guizhou".

In fact, it is really paving the way for the "Sichuan salt entering Hunan and Chu" in March and April next year.

Dashun can use the Yangtze River waterway to transport copper and lead, as well as the waterway from Sichuan to Hunan and Chu.

It’s just that the accident rate is a bit higher. The shipwreck rate of copper materials is about 10%, which is not too high.

After all, when the copper sinks, the draft is deep.

Secondly, when it is said that it is sinking, whether it is really sinking or false sinking, the court saw that the attrition rate was only 10%, so it turned a blind eye.

Salt sellers have to pay more for shipwrecks all day long, and shipwrecks for water transportation have to pay more for shipwrecks all day long. The shipwreck rate is only 10%, which is really "low loss" in Dashun.

If only Sichuan salt enters Hunan and Chu, the traffic problem is not too big now.

Liu Yu mentioned this mainly for future considerations.

He is well aware of the particularity of Dashun. The capital group that has been fostered must be tied to a chain in advance, or a carrot on a stick.

In Dashun, it is easy to support a capital group.

What is more important than support is to control and guide in advance.

Before deciding to support Shaanxi capital to monopolize Sichuan Salt, one must think about the result.

Sichuan is a good place, it is not easy to get out after entering.

This is true whether it is warlords, princes, or capital.

If the salt industry markets in Hubei, Hunan, and Guizhou were all handed over to this group of people, and relying on the capital accumulation speed of the salt industry, a lot of money would be held in Sichuan, then the fun would be great.

The "Land of Taoyuan" that the emperor was bragging to Liu Yu a while ago will have to be merged explosively in less than ten years.

This is different from Lianghuai Salt Industry Capital. Liu Yu's two sets of combined punches directly smashed Lianghuai Salt Industry Capital.

After the collapse, capital can go to northern Jiangsu to reclaim wasteland.

You can go to Nanyang.

Can go overseas.

You can even go to Ezo and other places to fish for seafood and sell them.

Now that he wants to support Sichuan Salt Capital Group, he must first consider where the rapidly accumulated capital will go after it is established.

Because history has already told Liu Yu that if nothing is done, the capital groups in the old society will invest their accumulated capital.

land.

usury.

pawn shop.

And the salt industry itself is very special.

Since we have chosen to separate production and sales, and the official operation and business sales, then the "vigorous and aggressive" period of this capital group will be ten years at most.

Because salt is not something that can increase production indefinitely, the market is so big.

In the early stage, due to insufficient production, there will be a wave of forging ahead.

Including but not limited to adopting new technology and so on.

Once the output reaches market saturation - this thing is different from Haimao Group.

Haimao Group can keep forging ahead for a long time, because every time it hits a market, it can get a profit.

Salt Merchant Group, what's the use of being aggressive?Or how to make progress?

How aggressive can the common people eat a catty of salt a day?

The limit of Sichuan salt is Sichuan, Tibet, Guizhou, Hubei and Hunan. No matter how powerful it is, it is impossible to sell Sichuan salt on the coast of Shandong.In history, when Great Britain was enthroned as the emperor, slave owners in Xueshan could use British diesel engines and British gramophones, but what they ate was not London salt, but local Sichuan salt.

Therefore, once the market is saturated, the Shaanxi Merchants Capital Group will quickly turn around and degenerate.

The speed of its decline is far faster than the capital groups in Songjiang Prefecture, because it is meaningless for them to be aggressive. After the market is saturated, what is there to be aggressive about?

(End of this chapter)